The (written)Work
POSTER PRESENTATION
Empathetic Embodiment: A Somaesthetic Rational for New Data Analysis Method
My poster shared the theoretical framework and experimental findings of a new analysis method which I am currently developing as part of my dissertation study. “Empathetic Embodiment,” integrates movement improvisation, dance composition, and traditional qualitative data analysis to gain an understanding of participants’ experiences through the body.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Presentation given to pre-service teachers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities using Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1921) and Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed (1974) as a case study for the gap between theory and practice. All content (c) Rae Charles Harge & cited sources. Credit to Slidesgo for Template.
Sample Dance Curriculum
This curriculum sample is built on an earnest desire to share the liberating and transformative experience of dance education with students. It has been designed using Backward Design heuristics and founded upon the NCAAS National Core Arts Standards 9-12th grade dance standards. These standards have been revised and augmented to anchor the curriculum with more actionable aims. This curriculum represents an attempt to balance the temporal nature of dance, its tradition of oral dissemination and authoritative pedagogy, with a liberatory educational philosophy. The arts are uniquely situated at the nexus of creativity and intellect—dance particularly employs the body in the freeing of the mind.
book chapter
Published chapter written with Thong Vang and Asha Omar Here We Go Again: Three Narratives of Struggle to Disrupt Racial Dominance in Education Spaces
Learning Analysis: Lester Horton technique video
In this paper, I apply learning theory to an instructional video on Lester Horton Technique. Illustrating how the arts, education, and cognitive science can intersect.
Dance criticism
More Than The Beat: My commissioned review of the 2014 Choreographer’s Evening at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN